In grade school, many of us were taught about the first Thanksgiving—a joyous day of peace and brotherhood between the American Indians and the newly settled Pilgrims, who shared together, in profound gratitude, an abundant harvest feast. Like many of the legends that accompany the taught-history and modern mythos of this nation, these stories of the first Thanksgiving are woven of high ideals and profound concepts while willfully disregarding historical reality, and the pain